Mali

2012

Police detained freelance reporter
Moctar Barry on November 15, 2012, in the central town of Sévaré, after he returned
from reporting on events in
Gao, an Islamist-occupied city in the northern half of Mali, local journalists
said.

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New York, December 5, 2012--Malian authorities
should immediately return the passports and equipment seized from two international
Al-Jazeera journalists who were detained for more than two days over the
weekend for attempting to cross into militant-controlled territory, the
Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

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At least five radio
stations were attacked in March 2012 as Tuareg separatists, allied with extremist
Islamist militants, pushed the Malian army back from the northeastern region of
Gao, according to news reports.

Soumaïla Abdoulaye Maïga, a presenter with community station
Radio Soni in the northeastern town of Ansongo, went into hiding on April 13, 2012, after
being warned of an imminent attack by separatist fighters of the National
Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), according to local journalists.
After Maïga fled, the fighters raided his house and detained a fellow
journalist and friend, local journalists said.

Members
of Ansar Dine, a Salafist militant group affiliated with Al-Qaeda, shut down two
local radio stations on March 27, 2012, as they seized the northeast
town of Kidal from the Malian army, according to local journalists.

Militants belonging to
the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), a Salafist group affiliated with Al-Qaeda, seized
control of community station Radio Soni in the northeastern town of
Ansongo on August 29, 2012, according to local journalists.

Two officials of the Movement for Oneness and
Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), a Salafist militant group affiliated with
Al-Qaeda, raided the studios of Radio Annya in the northeastern town of Gao on August
20, 2012, according to the BBC.

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Rebel fighters of the National
Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), a separatist movement of ethnic
Tuaregs in northern Mali, stormed the offices of private Radio Adar Khoïma in
the northeastern town of Gao on April 3, 2012, according to local journalists and
news reports. The rebels kidnapped a journalist and assaulted him, and forced
the station off the air for 72 hours, the sources said.

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Lagos, Nigeria, August 7, 2012--Members of
an Islamist militant group attacked a radio journalist in Mali on Sunday and
ordered his station off the air, according to local journalists and news
reports. The attack was in retaliation for the station's coverage of local
protests, according to local journalists and a leader of the Islamist group.

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Abuja, Nigeria, July 13, 2012--Armed, masked assailants abducted and
beat a veteran journalist in Mali on Thursday, leaving him with a broken hand
and other injuries, according to news
reports and local journalists.

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Unidentified armed men wearing
masks abducted Abdrahmane Keïta, editor of the private bi-weekly L'Aurore, in a public square in Bamako, the capital,
at about 8:30 p.m. on July 2, 2012, according to local journalists and news reports. The gunmen
dragged Keïta onto their vehicle while repeatedly kicking and beating him with
truncheons, the reports said.

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Habi Baby, an editor of the weekly
Caravane, was arrested by soldiers at his home in Bamako, the capital,
on June 12, 2012, after he published a story critical of Mali's security forces,
according to local journalists and news reports.

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New York, March 30, 2012--The Committee to Protect
Journalists condemns attacks and threats against several journalists covering the aftermath of the March 22 military coup in
Mali that ousted President Amadou Toumani Touré.

Yesterday, while reporting on breaking news in Mali from studios in Atlanta, CNN Wire Newsdesk Editor Faith Karimi made an ominous observation that presaged the outcome of developments unfolding 5,000 miles away. "#Mali president @PresidenceMali has not tweeted in 10 hours after reports of gunfire and a coup attempt," she tweeted.